Apple's moving to integrate end-to-end encryption (E2EE) into the RCS open standard messaging marks a major privacy win for both iOS and Android users. In this video, Techlore breaks down what this...
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They treat this as if e2ee was the privacy grail but it’s only marketing to fool people believing they’re protected.
The actual contents of the messages aren’t as important for privacy. It’s the Metadata and a ton of other measures rhay signal implements in their family of protocols.
Talking about e2ee and call it private shows ignorance in what privacy entails.
Exactly and if you have to use stock android or iOS to get this feature you are agreeing to so much intrusions into privacy that it’s sort of moot.
Good enough to protect against your bank verification codes from being intercepted, as long as the bank also uses RCS’s Encryption to send the message.
I assumed that when it comes to SMS 2FA, simswapping is a threat much bigger than interception of the contents…